| Long: basic | |
| Help: Use HTTP Basic Authentication | |
| See-also: proxy-basic | |
| Protocols: HTTP | |
| Category: auth | |
| Example: -u name:password --basic $URL | |
| Added: 7.10.6 | |
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| Tells curl to use HTTP Basic authentication with the remote host. This is the | |
| default and this option is usually pointless, unless you use it to override a | |
| previously set option that sets a different authentication method (such as | |
| --ntlm, --digest, or --negotiate). | |
| Used together with --user. |